wintergreen
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- Any evergreen plant.
- Plants in shrub genus Gaultheria, commonly known as wintergreen, especially: Gaultheria procumbens, native to North America, having solitary white flowers and aromatic leaves (checkerberry or teaberry)
- Plants in shrub genus Gaultheria, commonly known as wintergreen, especially: Gaultheria humifusa – alpine wintergreen
- Plants in shrub genus Gaultheria, commonly known as wintergreen, especially: Gaultheria ovatifolia – western teaberry or Oregon spicy wintergreen
- Plants in shrub genus Gaultheria, commonly known as wintergreen, especially: Chimaphila maculata – striped wintergreen, pipsissewa
- Plants in any of several other genera in the herbaceous family Ericaceae, including: Genus Pyrola, native to northern temperate and Arctic regions.
- Plants in any of several other genera in the herbaceous family Ericaceae, including: Genus Orthilia
- Plants in any of several other genera in the herbaceous family Ericaceae, including: Genus Moneses
- Plants in any of several other genera in the herbaceous family Ericaceae, including: Genus Chimaphila (prince's pine, pipsissewa)
- One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including: Some species of the herbaceous genus Trientalis, in family Primulaceae (chickweed wintergreen)
- The spicy red berries of Gaultheria procumbens.
- The oil, methyl salicylate, obtained from these berries.
- The aroma of the oil, methyl salicylate, however derived.
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